Year	Team	G	AB	HR	RBI	AVG	OPS	OPS+
2012	MIL	151	520	10	50	.288	.787	109
2013	MIL	155	597	8	37	.286	.726	102
2014	KC	132	491	1	43	.285	.710	101
2015	SF	93	355	5	26	.287	.733	102
2016	SEA	118	417	4	28	.283	.738	100
2017	HOU	110	336	5	35	.277	.728	97
Career		759	2716	33	219	.285	—	—

Barrel Surface

Every ball this hitter has put in play — how hard it left the bat, and at what angle. The red field behind the dots shows how much damage that kind of contact does, league-wide: the darker the red, the better things go for the hitter.

975 BBE · 2015–2017 · 86.0 mph avg EV · 0.9% barrels

LEAGUE xwOBA0.02.0

BATTED BALLS11025+

The field — league-average xwOBA (what a batted ball is typically worth: 0.0 is a sure out, ~2.0 a sure home run) for every exit-velocity × launch-angle combination, measured from 1.3 million regular-season balls in play since 2015. The dark ridge — balls hit 105+ mph at 25–30° — is the barrel zone, where contact becomes near-automatic extra bases.

The dots — this hitter’s career regular-season balls in play, grouped to a fine grid; a bigger dot means more batted balls at that exact combination. Dots piled onto the red ridge are damage; dots low on the pale field are weak or mishit contact. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.

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